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billy-cock

billy-cock is the alternative form of billycock.

Meaning of billycock

Noun

billycock (plural billycocks)

  1. (dated) A felt hat with a rounded crown, similar to a bowler.
    • a young man with a billycock hat on the back of his head tumbled up the steps in his eagerness.1911, GK Chesterton, The Innocence of Father Brown

Forms of billy-cock

pluralbilly-cocks

Questions about billy-cock

What is billy-cock the alternative form of?
Billy-cock is the alternative form of billycock.

Words near billy-cock in the dictionary

  1. Billy Wix
  2. Billy Yank
  3. Billy-be-damned
  4. billy-can
  5. billy-cans
  6. billy-cock
  7. billy-cocks
  8. billy-goat
  9. billy-goats
  10. billy-o
  11. billy-oh

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